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NOTICES OF BOOKS, 133
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Foreign Mterature.
. The " absolute isolation of the individual" is considered the indispensable preliminary of all improvement in human society .
The most conspicuous preacher of this new gospel is a certain Mr . Josiah Warren , stated by Mr . Frobel to be a man of independent
character and original intellect . Besides devoting himself for a considerable period to theoretical and practical studies on subjects
relating to commerce and education , he established in the city of Cincinnati a " Time Shop" so called because the value of the goods
sold was calculated according to the time employed upon them ; whether any other element of value was taken into consideration
does not appear . In 1847 , when he regarded his preparatory course of study as
complete , he set about the establishment on the Ohio , forty miles above Cincinnati , of a settlement to carry out his system , to which
he gave the name of Utopia . What amount of success attended the experiment is not stated ; but since then another of these
communities , or rather aggregations , of '' Sovereign Individuals , " has started into being on Long Island .
The most astounding result of the new principles is , however , seen in their application to education . Mr . Josiah Warren himself
gave Mr . Frobel the following account of his mode of operation : — wh " My I d little etermined daughter to make , " lie said beg , inning " . bet I ween said seven to her * You eigh are t y not ears yet of age old
, much enough as to is understand . perfectly You desire what to eat 1 am and going drink to say to wear to you clothes —hut perhaps live in as house , to warm necessary yourself at a fire , to possess books , toys ; you ex , pect when
h you ouse are ill to clo be thes taken nor care fuel of nor ; an books d you can nor procure toys . How for yourself do you neither expect to food get , nor all these " ' I , things get the ? ' m from , , and mamma , . ' — ' Very well ; but how do we get
them ?—we do not make you them ourselves . ' some " * work That I : don I keep 't know a shop , ' was , and the the ansAver people . who ' Well do , then make , I those will tell things you , require . I do
my work , and I sell it to them . We exchange the things we produce by our you obliged work know ; and to obey that this sometimes us we ; call you trade must you . do would _JS what ow much you I or know ra your ther that m play other at ; present but desire a certain you you are to quantity do alway , and s
tioned of work may must be be had done , for , in they order can that only food be got , clo b t y work , and . Now the other , since things you get I men them - us from to your make mother us amends and ? me Have , the we question a right is to , how your much whole work time you , day oug and ht ni to g do ht , for or lan b
you would could this do be your too much duty or towards not enoug us and h ? Could keep the you rest think of your of a time p to y do which what you " ' liked No' , s and he said be sure * but that I should we should like not to have disturb it so you ' ? '
, ; . same " * time Well thing , in to then washing me , I whether will tel crockery l 1 you spend what an in the hour I think kitchen in selling of the if goods therefore matter in . my It is shop would quite or wash the the
as sam much e crockery as would up take your mother or me ; an hour , you you would have more given than us compensation an hourbut for no an matter hour . of our time . Of course that would take you
the . " value ' Every of three member hours , of ' our labou family r of a grown consumes -up person daily , . in ordinary Now I con circumstances sider that six ,
Notices Of Books, 133
NOTICES OF BOOKS , 133
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/61/
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